When you have to discipline someone, or spend money you were given but did not want to accept and cannot give back — what do you do?
This piece belongs to a series of 100 posts written in memory of Thom's grandmother, published on her Facebook.
Use that money to plant forests, to build flood-proof houses, to support world food security programmes. That is what I have agreed with myself to do — with the money owed when a student of mine cancels a lesson at the last minute without a good reason, with the money my students wanted to give my grandmother, with the fee I am paid even though we had agreed I would work for free, and with a small fixed amount I send to one organisation every month.
If any of you have another interesting way of doing it, please tell me!
There are five organisations I have always trusted with my donations.
Those two weeks in their house were the loveliest thing I had in Athens.
The only thing I want to do with them: read together.
She told me that only that English video really worked, and that she has been able to go back to work.